Ranter or evangelist?

[David]

On 7/20/2009 5:36 AM, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 09:31 +0500, gilpel at altern.org wrote:
>> It's really weird. I already said that you have a gift for explaining,
>> which means you're certainly not completely dumb. How come you can't
>> understand the importance of market share for Linux?
> 
> a. This is Linux, other than for the few for-sale distributions "market
> share" is inappropriate terminology.
> 
> b. As I've already pointed out, just because you measure success by the
> percentage of users on different systems, doesn't mean others do, as
> well.  You're the one failing to understand things.
> 
> Linux has been the success that it is, all these years, despite the low
> numbers, as far as you're concerned.  It continues to succeed, despite
> the low numbers, because it does what its users want it to do.
> 
> It'll never replace Windows, because it'd have to be Windows (warts and
> all) to do that, and *we* don't want a Windows clone.  There's no point
> to that, we've already got Windows if we want those problems.
> 
> Linux isn't going to magically vanish because the relative number of
> users falls below some threshold.  It'll go when there's insufficient
> people involved to keep it going.
> 
> Things like proprietary media formats will always be around, even if
> Linux gets a huge /market share/,  And open formats still have a place
> even in a completely proprietary market.


Well stated. +1


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  David